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Participatory Urban Sensing: Vision Video

We are pleased to announce our new video piece that envisions how communities can use everyday mobile phones to gather data about things that are important to them. This vision is being made into reality right now by the center's researchers, who are working on projects such as the Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR).

 

"We envision a world where researchers, students, industry and goverment routinely use distributed sensor and actuator networks to understand and control both natural and artificial systems."

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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

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Events

Upcoming Events

Recent Events

  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Prabal Dutta
    Pervasive Personal Sensing

    June 11, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 3551 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
    Compressing Location Traces using Maps

    June 4, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: CENS Main Conference Room, 3551 BH

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  • CENS SRC URO Scholars Poster Session

    May 14, 2010 -- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Location: CENS Courtyard

  • CENS SRC URO Scholars Event: From Mount St. Helens to the White House: Where a Degree in Science or Engineering Can Lead

    May 14, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Lin Zhong
    Toward a sensory mobile system

    May 7, 2010, 1:00 PM -- May 13, 2010, 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeongyeup Paek
    Energy-Efficient Rate-Adaptive GPS-based Positioning for Smartphones

    April 30, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Karen Kim
    CENS Ethics Seminar: Discussion about Authorship

    April 16, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Yuvraj Agarwal
    Building Aggressively Duty-Cycled Platforms to Achieve Energy Efficiency

    April 9, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Sameera Poduri
    Visibility Monitoring using Mobile Phones

    March 12, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: CENS Main Conference Room 3551 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Murali Annavaram
    Energy Efficiency: The Critical Ingredient to Untethering Wireless Body Area Networks

    March 5, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Travis Collier
    Localizing animal vocalizations in a terrestrial environment with a wireless sensor network

    February 26, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Scott Moeller
    Routing Without Routes: The Backpressure Collection Protocol

    February 12, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Richard Guy
    Deployment in the Real World--Challenges from CENS Seismic in Peru

    February 5, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: CENS 3551BH: Main Conference Room

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Todd Presner
    HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Mapping Platform

    January 29, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: CENS Main Conference Room - 3551 Boelter Hall

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Leyla Sabet
    Marine Toxin Domoic Acid Biosensor and Utilization of the Sensor and Feedback System Control (FSC) to Understand the Complex Conditions which Induce the Production of Domoic Acid

    January 22, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
    Recovering Lost Sensor Data through Compressed Sensing

    January 15, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Thomas Schmid
    Software - Hardware Interactions in the Time Service of Embedded Wireless Systems

    January 8, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: 4760 BH

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeff Burke
    Urban Sensing as Experience Infrastructure

    August 21, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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News

  • Four CENS Students Win Fellowships

    08-Jun-10

    Congratulations to four CENS graduate students for winning outstanding fellowships. Min Y. Mun and Matt Mayernik were awarded a UC Dissertation Year Fellowship; Donnie Kim was selected as an Intel PhD Fellowship recipient; Teresa Ko won a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Read More

  • Miller-McCune - Invasive Weeds? There's An App for That

    13-May-10

    Thanks to the work of Eric Graham and other CENS researchers, resource managers working in national parks have a new tool in their arsenal to monitor and control invasive weeds: a mobile application that allows park visitors to identify and report harmful non-native plants. Read More

  • Conservation Maven - Using public surveillance cameras to detect evidence of climate change

    02-Apr-10

    CENS Researcher Eric Graham and fellow researchers from UCLA have tested out an approach of using public internet-connected cameras to monitor plant changes on a continental scale. The method may help scientists detect the signals of climate change. Read More

  • Daily Bruin - Environment 185 Class Uses Smart Phone Features Such as GPS to Research Green Issues on Campus

    12-Feb-10

    While most students use their cell phones to text or chat, those enrolled in an environmental studies class are putting a scientific twist on the gadget. Four current research projects for the class Environment 185 incorporate CENS’s technology for gathering information through smart phone features like cameras and GPS. Read More

  • The New York Times - Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There

    30-Jan-10

    Years ago, enthusiasts predicted the coming of “smart dust” — tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering all sorts of information and communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and understand the physical world in new ways.

    Several CENS projects are highlighted. Read More

  • LA Times - Brendan M. Kutler

    07-Jan-10

    It is with profound sadness and a great sense of loss that we inform you that Brendan Kutler, one of our CENS High School Scholars in 2008 and ongoing contributor to CENS participatory sensing research, passed away in his sleep on December 29, 2009 at the age of 17. It's an understatement to say that he will be missed as part of the CENS family. Read More

  • Santa Barbara Independent - Cell Phone App Combats Weeds

    06-Jan-10

    UCLA and the National Park Service have teamed up to combat weeds. The university’s Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area developed a cell phone app to locate invasive plant species within national parks, which will help park service workers. Read More

  • The New York Times - New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

    20-Dec-09

    Hybrid careers that combine computing with other fields will increasingly be the new American jobs of the future, labor experts say. In other words, the nation’s economy is going to need more cool nerds.
    CENS Summer High School Scholar Mario Calleros is featured. Read More

  • NPR Science Friday - "Data Mining in the Mobile World": Radio Interview with Deborah Estrin

    18-Dec-09

    CENS Director Deborah Estrin was interviewed today on the NPR radio program Science Friday. Read More

  • Latest Biodiscovery at CENS

    05-Nov-09

    The latest biosensor discovery at CENS--squirrels as detectors of leaky irrigation systems.
    Squirrel drinking from a leaking water pipe on the UCLA campus
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  • CNN.com - A new way of looking at the world

    02-Nov-09

    An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of "data" and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.

    Nathan Yau, a CENS graduate student at UCLA is featured. He founded a Web site, Your Flowing Data, that helps people chart their lives using Twitter. Read More

  • CENS SRC URO Scholars Program

    24-Sep-09

    Apply today to become a CENS SRC URO Scholar! CENS is accepting applications for UCLA undergraduates to apply to the 2009-2010 CENS SRC URO Scholars Program. Deadline: October 16, 2009 Read More

  • Deborah Estrin awarded 2009 ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award

    11-Sep-09

    Congratulating to CENS's Director, Deborah Estrin for being this year's winner of the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award! Sigmobile is the Association of Computing Machinery's special interest group on wireless and mobile communications.

  • Slashdot.org - Your Rights Online: Privacy, Mobile Phones, Ubiquitous Data Collection

    03-Sep-09

    CENS' Katie Shilton's article is featured on slashdot. Read More

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